If Iraq = Vietnam, then what year is this?

[kansasblue]

So what year in Vietnam war years would 2005 be?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. 1967.

It's just starting to spool up.

[MADem]

3. Yep, maybe early 68--things seem to happen faster nowadays nt

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. Ridiculous

Absolutely ridiculous.

[knowbody0]

2. right about the time nixon

bombed Cambodia.

[tocqueville]

4. the year of the monkey ?

[catnhatnh]

5. 68/73

war is 68...political smell is 73,just before the Flood (Water) Gates broke....

[madeline_con]

6. I'd say '68 also...

That was a roller coaster ride!!!

[dretceterini]

7. This reminds me of the time

just before the Democratic National Covention in Chicago in 1968

[madeline_con]

8. What a fun year.

The world was on FIRE!!! :mad:

[Kickin_Donkey]

17. Fun?

Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. both getting blown away was fun?

:think:

[madeline_con]

18. I keep forgetting to add this....

so obvious :sarcasm: can be recognized by everyone. ;)

[win_in_06]

9. Based on the number of casualties mid sixties

[Botany]

10. 65

the fun is just starting

Vietnam will seem like nothing compared to Iraq ....
if we do not get out soon.

Vietnam was jungle and the VC and the North Vietnamese regulars
could hide there and get some help from locals (in many cases
through force) Iraq is desert and towns .... our enemy must be
being hidden by the Iraqi people.

130,000 troops holding a country of 24 million ... Good Luck!

"They" want civil war so as to splinter the opposition.

I wish Kristol and his PNAC group had to go there right now.

[drluch]

11. can u imagine if iraq had all of the cover that vietnam had?

we'd have about 20,000 dead by now.

Bring 'em home.

[Botany]

12. Although cover is not what it used to be

thanks to thermal images ..... "our war machine rolls on."
The common factor is the ability for the "enemy" to melt
back into the background ..... even more so in Iraq.

Except for much lower casualties, less harsh conditions,
and the ability to get out Iraq is more akin to Stalingrad.

Our poor troops are stuck in an un-winnable situation as
a mad man thousands of miles away gives orders that have
no chance of success. i.e. The great democratic state of Iraq,
when in all actuality it will become an Islamic theocracy.

BTW has anybody seen bin Laden?

[ginnyinWI]

14. 1968

[ladylibertee]

15. Please help me understand something.I was exactly one week

old when Nixon resigned.I guess I just told my age.:P Anyways,I have older brothers and sisters who told me all kinds of stories and I have always tried to capture an understanding of that whole era.I am quite fascinated by the marches and movements from the 60's.I would like to know,is what we are dealing with now, the war in Iraq, civil rights,Cindy sheehan,the neglect of the Katrina victims, and all the outrage that resulted, is this the"mood"? Is my generations issues less intense or more? please reply.Thanks

[Kickin_Donkey]

16. My first thought was 1967 ...

The comparison is imperfect, of course, but I say '67 because, although things are unraveling in Iraq and the public is becoming ever more skeptical, we haven't had our Tet moment yet.

If I remember, the Tet Offensive occurred in early '68, which showed Americans there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

In some ways, it could be 1968, which is generally considered the highwater mark for U.S. troop deployment in Vietnam. I can't see * increasing troop numbers in Iraq because there aren't really any more to send over. He may pull troops out ahead of the November mid-term elections. That would make it, what, 1973 -- with the Vietnamization of the military force.